Twelve high powered guns
and over 700 assorted rounds of ammunition were seized during a massive
security operation at Port Bustamante in Kingston
on Monday.
Three suspects including a woman, all of St. Catherine addresses, are now in custody facing questioning in connection with the find.
According to Information Officer for Operation Kingfish, Detective Sergeant Jubert Llewellyn, intensive investigations led a joint police team to confiscate the weapons and ammunition which were concealed in an air compressor.
"The 12 guns comprising of two AK-47 assault rifles, two Dessert Eagles, one .44 pistol, one Mack-11 sub machine gun, one Glock pistol, one Smith and Wesson .44 revolver, one Taurus pistol, one Rugar, one Kel-Tec pistol and one Hessler and Koch 9MM pistol along with the more than 700 rouds assorted ammunition, 28 magazines and telescopic lens for sniper rifles were found," he said.
Three suspects including a woman, all of St. Catherine addresses, are now in custody facing questioning in connection with the find.
According to Information Officer for Operation Kingfish, Detective Sergeant Jubert Llewellyn, intensive investigations led a joint police team to confiscate the weapons and ammunition which were concealed in an air compressor.
"The 12 guns comprising of two AK-47 assault rifles, two Dessert Eagles, one .44 pistol, one Mack-11 sub machine gun, one Glock pistol, one Smith and Wesson .44 revolver, one Taurus pistol, one Rugar, one Kel-Tec pistol and one Hessler and Koch 9MM pistol along with the more than 700 rouds assorted ammunition, 28 magazines and telescopic lens for sniper rifles were found," he said.
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